Why do you say Halloween is not a <-insert religion here-> holiday?

Question: Why do you say Halloween is not a Satanic holiday?
Question: Why do you say Halloween is not a Christian holiday?

Well, Halloween is over... While it was fun to watch some people insist that Halloween was a satanic holiday, and others to insist that it was a Christian holiday, and yet others say it was a pagan holiday (obviously they don't even know what paganism is), practically everyone missed the part about it being a three-day event.

Day 1 - Devils Night
Day 2 - Halloween
Day 3 - Day of the dead

Of course, there are at least a dozen different names for each of those days, depending on your locale...  Point being made that these three days are all part of one festival of remembrance.  Over the years, many organizations tried to take it over, and the original intent was lost to almost everyone.

First of all, this is a VERY old "festival", it was instituted by the survivors of Atlantis, after it sunk into the ocean approximately 13,000 years ago.  It is so old that people eventually forgot the original meaning.

Day 1 represents the history of debauchery and mischief that caused the fall of Atlantis.  It was their own activities that led to the event that caused the destruction of the island nation.  The survivors spent this day remembering those mis-steps, vowing to not repeat them.

Day 2 represents the actual disaster, the day of impending doom.  Knowing that there was nothing they could do about it, and that it would probably kill everyone, they faced their fate with as much dignity as possible.  Instead of cowering in fear, they held lavish parties, dressing up in costumes and enjoying the time they had left.  The survivors spent this day recreating those festivities.

Day 3 represents the aftermath of the disaster. The island nation had sunk beneath the ocean, and the vast majority of the population went down with it.  The survivors spent this day remembering their fallen brethren, honoring their memories.




So... To answer the original question.

From all of the research I have done on this, the best I can describe it was that the original intent of this "festival" (for lack of a better word) was an act of remembrance, one to get people to reflect upon what happened and to get them to not do it again.

Well, to be honest, a catastrophe that had the magnitude large enough to complete eradicate an entire continent, and 99% of the human population on the planet is pretty serious thing.  (Yes, this is the same flood that Noah was involved in.)  There was not many area of the planet that were untouched by it, and it completely changed the landscape of Earth.

But... Like everything else... Over time people forgot about it. Just like all the advanced technology that the survivors brought with them, it all disappeared over time.  People reverted back to stone-age techniques, and a lot of the time honored rituals lost their original intent.

However, that does not mean that the energy of the event was lost.  That time of the year there is a resurgence of the energy involved in the event, kind of like an echo.  Over time, various groups found that they could pick up on that energy, and use it for their own purposes.  Satanic rituals are heavy into that thing, which is why they are quite active during that holiday.  Other ones, not so much, but they still do celebrate, even if they don't know why... "Because we have always done that."